<p><strong>1. Citizen Kane (1941) - There was Citizen Kane by Orson Welles, and there are all the rest of the films.</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><strong>2.
The Tree of Life (2011) - Terrence Malick's magnum opus, a great
meditation on the meaning of life, the birth and evolution of Universe
and Mankind, and everything else in between. A bravura filmmaking at it's
unfailingly finest.<p> </p>3. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - Stanley
Kubrick's apocalyptic space journey, leaping into the hyper space where
no man has gone before!<p> </p>4. The Godfather Part I & II (1972,
1974) - Francis Coppola's one-two punch with a Mafia saga, first
depicting the fierce gangster wars, then covering the origin and
history of the crime organization.<p> </p>5. L'Avventura (1960) -
Michelangelo Antonioni's existential, often surreal portrayal of
alienation and loss of love in a desolate modern society.<p> </p>6. Seven Samurai
(1954) - Akira Kurosawa in his grandly epic fashion creates visual
spectacles but also provides a moving observation on human nature, what
motivates their heroism and ultimate sacrifice.<p> </p>7. The Thin Red
Line (1998) - Terrence Malick again in the business of War. This
utterly unconventional, soulful, poetic masterpiece looks into inner worlds of
the individual soldiers facing simultaneously the cruelty of the war and the celestial beauty of Nature (Pacific Islands).<p> </p>8.
Harakiri (1962) - Masaki Kobayashi's relentless, gut wrenching assault
on the Japanese feudalism or, injustices in any society in any time
period. Visually and structurally rigorous, aesthetically exact, with
Nakadai's once-in-a-lifetime performance as the lone samurai.<p> </p>9.
Pulp Fiction (1992) - Quentin Tarantino's maddeningly original
entertainment shows just how far a movie can go without quite bordering
on the madness.<p> </p>10. Vertigo (1960) - Alfred Hitchcock did a
perfect exercise in the film Noir with the lush, colorful, dreamlike San
Francisco setting.</strong><p></p>
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